Python "object" as root object

[Andrew Bennetts]

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 12:15:37PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
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> 
> (It seems that method decorators like classmethod and staticmethod do
> work ok with old-style classes though.)

I think the confusion is that *descriptors* don't work with old-style
classes, and somewhere along the way in the thread that got misread as
decorators.

-Andrew.